Bell-Tainter Graphophone

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Bell-Tainter Graphophone

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

December 4, 1885: Charles Sumner Tainter filed for a U.S. patent for “Apparatus for Recording and Reproducing Sound.” This was the first use of wax recording, and the first design for removable and replayable records.

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Thanks for posting.
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You're very welcome, Ken.

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how many of the original long black wax cylinders survive? I know they are very rare but I don't know just how rare.
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